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A San Francisco supervisor today introduced legislation that would create a 25-foot buffer zone around entrances to facilities that provide reproductive health care to protect workers and patients from alleged harassment by anti-abortion activists.

The proposal by Supervisor David Campos, which he said is being co-sponsored by seven other supervisors, comes as a Planned Parenthood clinic on Valencia Street has reported constant protesting from anti-abortion groups.

Current city law creates a 8-foot “bubble” around patients entering or leaving a reproductive health care facility, but Campos said that ordinance was hard to enforce and “not sufficient to protect the women.”

He said his new legislation finds a “balance between the right to free speech and the right for women to access health care.”

Campos said San Francisco has “always led the way in protecting civil rights and this is an opportunity to continue to do so.”